Antonia: Nobody wants to work the high risk planets like Earth. Part of the incentive package is that the government will match any insurance payout for accident or death.
6th Doctor: Money! This [murder] has all been about money, filthy lucre.
Doctor Who, The Condemned 2008
About a dozen years ago back when I was doing door to door pitching for advertisers for the old DaTechGuy on DaRadio show I found myself in a Doctor’s office. He told me that his practice was restricted to immigrants, legal or otherwise, who were covered by Mass Health (our state’s universal healthcare system). Remembering the nature of my grandparents and the Italian immigrants who tended to downplay sickness I knew I expressed surprise that he could make a practice out of it. He told me that it was exactly the opposite, that the current batch of immigrants came in for every little thing and that he was constantly billing the state for it. As he put it, looking at my city, anyone who didn’t build his business model on this was a fool.
That’s what I thought about when I saw this write-up about Gaza:
Under the rule of Hamas in Gaza, beginning in 2005, the smuggling tunnel industry in Rafah (from Egypt) flourished, which in addition to arms also transported goods into Gaza and controlled the markets in Gaza. The tunnels served as a gold mine for a large group of Gazans, controlled by Hamas and other terrorist organizations. Dozens of them became millionaires (!) from that corrupt underground activity. from
Like Democrat non-profits in the US they didn’t let a crisis go to waste.
Gaza’s millionaires live in mansions overlooking the beach in Gaza, with luxury furniture smuggled from Europe and the Gulf countries, they are surrounded by servants, drivers, private tutors for their children, security and maintenance personnel. They drive in luxury cars, some of them own yachts in Qatar, they eat in prestigious restaurants and go on prestigious vacations all over the world, their children study in academies abroad. In all the mansions – there are underground shelters for protection against war.
In Gaza the wealth is not equally distributed, there is a layer of millionaires, even billionaires, who got rich from corruption and the industry of death and terrorism, many senior Hamas officials and their associates simply steal the donations money and the Qatari money that is transferred to support the Gazan population – into their own pockets. There is an intermediate layer that also prospers indirectly from these industries and the wages that Hamas pays its members, and there is a layer of very poor unemployed people who are completely dependent on them.
Gaza is neither an “open air prison” nor a “concentration camp”, it is tragically a society ruled by corrupt leaders who created extreme class gaps and send the poor to die for the continued maintenance of the bloody terrorist industry and the donations that enrich them personally beyond imagination.
And don’t think for one moment that the NGO’s and the UN administrators who are constantly seeking money here are not getting their cut. Again like US pols who divert taxfunds to dem NGO and reap campaign contributions from it.
Remember that the pullout of Israel from Gaza was to demonstrate to the world Israel’s good faith, instead all it did was create a money pit for those who wanted to get rich off terror. An entire economy built on death, sort of like the abortion industry.
What would they do once Israel was gone?
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